Anyone who’s ever met us at a wedding knows we have absolute respect for all photographers. For a start, we’ve all been chosen by the same wedding couple, and also we just love photography in general! Hence our great working relationship with Lime Leaf Weddings.

I love my new Canon 7D dSLR camera. I’ve even found I can use my knowledge of colour grading from the wedding edits I do, to achieve some nice looks.

I hope my first SLR attempts look ok to you … be nice ok

Fiona and Nick:
St Anne’s Church, Chertsey
Great Fosters, Egham

Since my last couple of blog entries, where Nick and Fiona featured in an ‘audio comparison’ clip and ‘colour-grading’  write-up, I’ve had emails from around the world saying how beautiful Fiona is, and how lucky Nick is to have married her. ;)  So back by popular demand, here’s the lovely couple once more!

The song is extremely fitting, as Cara Dillon is an Irish folk singer. It connects with the irish accents from the wedding itself, and with that swan you see in the clip … you’ll see what I mean

And just check out the biggest-real-mistletoe-bush-on-a-ceiling ever! (7 seconds in)

Richard

Click here to see the highlights in full-screen HD.

To purchase a copy of this wedding DVD, you can use paypal (which accepts debit/credit cards), but before sending it out we will double-check with the bride and groom that they know you.

Just a quick reminder (to fellow videographers and photographers) that I will be giving seminars each day from the 15th-17th January, representing FX Films and Canon at the SWPP Convention 2010, Hammersmith.

Here’s the flyer for it, which might I add, has all it’s photos from our very own partner photography company, Lime Leaf Weddings!

We truly have an amazing and exclusive partnership with Lime Leaf Weddings, working on weddings together with our combined ‘Simplicity‘ package (Cinematography + Photography).

Here’s a random few recent images from them, that i’ve personally handpicked from their galleries, showing their unobtrusive and artistic (almost cinematic!) style:

**and if that’s not enough to whet your appetite, i’ve just added some images to my recent post on Krista and Robin’s ‘Simplicity’ wedding, click here**

Wow, time has literally flown by - FX Films is 4 years old today!

It only seems like yesterday I nervously filmed that very first wedding!

And, as our wedding films have become better and better, so too have the logos I can finally say I’m sticking with the current one!

Good, clear audio is a huge and important aspect of the filming process.

We have several superb items in our kit-list to assist us in achieving this, but all you need to know, is how it sounds in the end:

Sounds Good! (Achieving Clear Audio at Weddings) from FX Films on Vimeo.

Colour-grading, levels-tweaking, gamma-correcting - most of you won’t know or even care about these terms…and why should you?

Almost all major films you see nowadays have had the above, from ‘Transformers’ to ‘Avatar’ to ‘Sex and the City’!
Some have been subtly ‘graded’ to give a warm look (e.g. ‘The Beach’), and some are quite bleached and gritty (e.g. ‘Terminator Salvation’). But however subtle or deliberate, it’s important to get it right in order to connect the viewer to the story, and to aid impact and emotion.

I spend a lot of time working through wedding edits, ensuring I tweak the levels and colours to suit the scene and feel.
(Funny fact: When I was about 10 years old, I used to put a yellow sweet wrapper over a videocamera lens, to make it look like there was a yellow sunset!!! n.b. I won’t do this at your wedding!)

Without getting too technical (i save that for the 1-to-1 training sessions!), here are some filmic colour-graded examples of Fiona about to get out of her wedding car, from a current wedding edit I’m working on.
*Click on the image to see a full-screen comparison*